The bat climax
First off I want to say that this is one of my favoutire Price flicks, and this post is in no way critique of the film. Unless you're one of those cats that likes to bring up the ethics of portraying critters in a missleading fashion. Now, with that said, a trick that never fails to draw a crowd in the world of horror is the application of phobia, and to a further extent the love/hate realtionship the average joe and josephine seem to thrive on when they watch a movie - for example - like Arachnophobia or Jaws (not to say that Jaws isn't also one of the greatest horror movies of all time) We're all aware of this, just like we're aware of the fact that some people shrill when they see a bunch of black rats while other people get an urge to go the nearest petstore and cuddle with the nearest rodent for a few hours. Now I myself belongs to the category of the ladder, and in my own right am as much of a big softie as the other demographic in the sense that I get that awww reflex that I have to fight of to not start upchucking nonesetalk as soon as I see anything that slithers, crawls, walks or flies, in any given movie (again, with maybe the exception of sharks and insects). Which brings me to the bat scene in the beginning on the movie when a guy wakes up with a bed full of flying foxes, which might be one of the cutest scenes in the history of cinema. So I just got to know, being mindbottled that anyone would find even rats scary or repulsive (and yes, even though rats have admitedly been carriers of some pretty funky stuff over the years, like the plauge),is there anyone out there that actually got the creeps from the scene with the flying foxes? (it wouldn't be so hard for me to grasp if it weren't for the closeups of those *beep* adorable tiny doglike faces.)
And I'm not going to be a douche bag and chastitise anyone for it; it'd just be interesting to know.